Advertising Age, the leading trade magazine for the marketing industry, has pulled its March 16 issue. There has been a lot of talk about the decline of print media recently but instead of just reporting another story that not only impacts readers but the lives of the people who work there, PSFK dec...

  The atheist bus campaign rolls on.  Its latest victims and champions can be found in Italy, where the city of Genoa was supposed to be rewarded for its long ties to some small religion (it apparently involves worshiping an old kook in a big pointy hat) by facing off with the greatest of ...

  Last month's story about the atheism bus and subway ad campaign is far and away the most-visited post we've ever run. Fools on both sides of the aisle are still debating the merits of the anti-God argument and every other aspect of the article. As of now, there are more than 80 commen...

Earlier this month Advertising Age announced their selection for the Top 50 marketing ideas of 2008 and the marketers behind them. This February they will be honored in New York. Congratulations to this years nominees… •    AmEx Members Project      Belinda Lang, American Express Co.• Â...

Just about a year ago, we were bracing for an epic microbrew price hike, which has indeed come to pass. And now the financial crisis—which has played havoc with the personal net worth of not just heavily invested young urban microbrew-swilling professionals, but the rest of us, too—has m...

Advertising Age reports that less people are using Weight Watchers because of the hard economic times.  Advertising Age, believes that this will result in fatter Americans because they will not have the benefits of the Weight Watchers program to help them. You have got to be fucking kidding me?  T...

In 1960, an advertising agency chairman named Rosser Reeves was known as the high priest of hard sell. He wrote a very popular book titled "Reality in Advertising." His book was translated into twenty-eight languages and was widely used as a college textbook. In many ways it was the beginning of mod...

Should have concocted this special Adverganza feature earlier in the week, but, hell, been a little busy. Today, in "I didn't go to Cannes", First, wanted to mention that while you all were out partying I was serving cupcakes at the 5th grade graduation. And now the headlines I read about the advert...

It’s not often I read an article and stand up and cheer. Well, a recent Advertising Age interview had me doing just that. And, yes, I did get some funny looks from those around me. Who had me doing the Tiger Woods I-just-made-another-eagle-putt fist pump? Avinash Kaushik. (The title of the Mya...

As most of you know, Ad Age invited some bloggers to their offices in New York a couple weeks ago to talk about the Power 150, the future of Ad Age and the broader social media landscape. Being the interweb powerhouse that I obviously am, of course I was invited. I won't drone on about the details, ...